FRANCOISE BOURDIN. The novelist died on Monday, December 26, 2022. She had co-published a last book in favor of Restos du Coeur.
[Mise à jour le 26 décembre 2022 à 12h10] It is a great name in French literature who is gone. This Monday, December 26, 2022, Françoise Bourdin died, announced the publishing group Editis. Known for having written dozens of novels having had some success with a total of 15 million books sold, she was 70 years old. The last one in which she participated was released on November 3. It was the 2023 edition of “13 à table!”, a book written with other authors and prefaced by astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The purchase of each book makes it possible to distribute four meals to the Restos du Coeur.
“I extend my most sincere condolences to the family of Françoise Bourdin, to her two daughters, Fabienne and Frédérique, to her grandchildren, I am thinking of all the teams, from Belfond, from Plon and from Pocket, who have worked with her for so many years, as well as to her millions of loyal readers,” said the group’s general manager, Michèle Benbunan. The reasons for François Bourdin’s death were not disclosed by the publishing group.
Who was Francoise Bourdin?
Françoise Bourdin was born in Paris in 1952, the daughter of a couple of artists. First taking an interest in opera, she finally turned to literature, in parallel with her interest in horse riding. This is what will trigger the writing of her first novel, published in 1972, when she was not even 20 years old, “Les Soleils humids”. After raising her children, she resumed writing in the early 1990s and multiplied the publications each year. She has had some success since her books have sold several hundred thousand copies. However, she was never really recognized by the general public, she who is presented as the fourth French author in number of sales, after Guillaume Musso, Marc Levy and Katherine Pancol.
During a meeting with West Franceshe explained to write “stories that look like us”, featuring “rather nice people that we could meet in real life”, seeking to end his works on “a happy ending”. However, “it’s not because I write stories where people love each other that it’s rose water literature”, she confided.